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In reply to the discussion: Report: Cops stun Tampa woman pregnant with sixteenth child [View all]Baitball Blogger
(51,971 posts)They don't patrol the entire City of Tampa.
And, yes, I am reasonably sure the police knew about this family. One might make the argument that it's because they knew them that they felt so justified in barging into the house. So that's not helpful to your side of viewing things.
I live in a State where a kid went for skittles and never came home and the cops did a piss poor job of investigating the matter. I live in a State where a twentish year old girl was tasered in the back when she was handcuffed and she hit her head on the pavement and is in a permanent coma. I think something is very wrong with someone who expects cops to be honest and never tell lies.
I mean, what kind of two-tiered country are we creating where we subject the poorest to the highest level of police scrutiny, and expectations for obedience, when the other tier tunes into inside information such as this one:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865 which explains why you shouldn't talk to the police?
Someone is supplying them with food and rent. That's the obvious answer.